Mistakes found

Here we list all mistakes found in the English language edition of the book Factfulness. We list all mistakes found, but they will not occur in all printings, since we try to correct mistakes as we find them. If you have spotted a mistake that is not listed here, please let us know so we can add it to the list and improve future printings of the book.

Author’s Note

Introduction

CHAPTER ONE: The Gap Instinct

CHAPTER TWO: The Negativity Instinct

Page 49, line 11: “housing market in 2007” should be “housing market in 2008”

Page 49, line 24: “30 countries” should be “30 countries and territories”

Page 60, graph Legal Slavery: “out of 194” should be “out of 195”

Page 60, graph Death Penalty: “out of 194” should be “out of 195”

Page 60, graph Leaded Gasoline: “out of 194” should be “out of 195”

Page 61, graph Smallpox: “out of 194” should be “out of 195”

Page 62, graph Women’s Right to Vote: “out of 194” should be “out of 195”, and the number in the chart for 2017, should say “194” as only one country in the world is restricting women’s rights to vote compared to men.

Page 68, line 2-3: “violent crime rate” should be “crime rate”

Page 68, line 7: “violent crime” should be “crime”

CHAPTER THREE: The Straight Line Instinct

Page 92, line 16-17: “all children in the land around the Nile died” should be “all children died”

Page 97, line 5: “as a percentage of all deaths” should be “as a percentage of all child deaths”

CHAPTER FOUR: The Fear Instinct

Page 115, line 11: “Eight miles” should be “Eighteen miles”

Page 131, line 9: “never been lower.” should be “never been lower since the measuring began.”

CHAPTER FIVE: The Size Instinct

CHAPTER SIX: The Generalization Instinct

Page 148, graph: “Fact Question 2” should be “Fact Question 9”

CHAPTER SEVEN: The Destiny Instinct

Page 182, line 5: “the chairwoman of the African Union” should be “the chairpersonof the African Union Commission”

CHAPTER EIGHT: The Single Perspective Instinct

Page 201, line 13: “in 2016” should be “in the years 2012–2016”.

CHAPTER NINE: The Blame Instinct

Page 216, line 20-29: should read “For example, Mao was undoubtedly an extraordinarily powerful figure whose actions had direct consequences for 1 billion people. Most often when I show the low birth numbers in Asia, someone says “That must be because of Mao’s one-child policy.”

But the infamous one-child policy had less influence than is commonly thought. The huge, fast drop from six to three babies per woman in China, happened in the ten years preceding the one-child policy. During the 36 years the policy was in place, the number never fell below 1.5, […]”

Page 217, line 6: should be added “[…] powerful man. And it wasn’t even Mao’s policy. It was introduced after his death.”

CHAPTER TEN: The Urgency Instinct

Page 225, line 30: “Kitwik” should be “Kikwit”

Page 232, line 23: “the vast majority of the world knows that.” should be “the vast majority of people living on Level 4 know that.”

Page 238, line 25: “loan crash in 2009” should be “loan crash in 2008”

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